Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-10-18
DAKOTA CONVERSATIONS.

Grant county's new Jail 10 nearly ready
for inmates.
The contract price for building the
new Episcopal caurch at Rapid City is
$500.
The Huron Times says hat seventy
three cases of typhoid fever are reported
at Aberdeen.
Attorney General Tsmpleton and
Captain Spaulding have dissolved their
law partnership ct Fargo.
kimball's artesian lake is now we'll
supplied with carp, procured from the
United States fish commissioner.
Miss Clara Lugar of Fargo received
the prize for the best scholars writing
on exhibition in the north Dakota fair
at Grand Forks.
Hon. George WoodfoSd, the eloquent
temperance lecturer will begin a series
OF meetings IN Huron on Monday even
ing. October Oath.
L. is generally supposed that KIM
balls postmaster, B. F. Ochsner, who
left for the woods OF Maine some three
weeks ago, is married. He is expected
home by the first of November.
a small depot is being built at Twin
Brooks. Grant county. This little town
has been shipping S 1900 worth of wheat
a day. During this season they have
shipped 20 900 bushels of wheat.
Chas. Logan, a former employe OF the
Aberdeen Republican, hes forged q
CHECK on the finn for SIS, also other
checks to the amount of $45 and $15
The forger has skipped the town, but
the authorities are after him.
The farmers of Nelson county have
formed d pool and propose to sell their
grain this year in q lump. They have
$4,000 bushels and will sell to the
highest bidder. they think il will 90
to Duluth, but Minneapolis or Chicago
can have it by bidding higher.
Rev. A w. Adkinson closed his third
year ae pastor OF the Methodist church
OF Huron Sunday, at which time be
preached bis farewell ermon The south
Dakota conference i Aber-
deem on the 18th, and it's believed Mr..
Atkinson will be sent to another field.
Rapid City was dlsgraced the other
pight by o fray in which an intoxicated
but harmless fellow was set upon by
dis1eputable women who wanted his
watch and money, numerically beaten,
With q beer bottle, brickbat and revolver,
and left for dead. He may possibly re-
cover.
A Huron special says that j. W..
Campbell, a grader on the Manitoba
road, tried to iniure some OF his fellow
wofkmen while insane. He has been
arrested and adiudged insane. but the
board do not know what to do with him
as there is no room In the Yankton
asylum.
Negotiations have Just been closedsfor
the establishment of a school In Colnm.
ole, to be Fnown as the Columbia school
OF language, science and business. Prof.
a. ID. Holenbrans, of Ann Arbor, Mich,
VIII De the principal. The school will
start out with q membership of thirty
five pupile.
While the family OF William Duncan,
OF Mount Vernon, we're away from home
Friday, leaving their children in the
house, the eldest a girl OF eleven, her
brother, SIX years old. started to take a
loaded shotgun from the bedroom, and
in trying to prevent him the girl was
killed by the discharge of the gun.
Messrs Hunter & Cole, independent
grain buyers OF Melette, who have been
paying six cents more for wheat than
the regular elevator card price, and have
brought suit against the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad for refusing
to furnish cars for the shipment OF their
Grain, while the elevators were promptly
Supplied.
Albert w. Flexner. representing Katz
& 90, clt5thiers Of Chicago, and Adolph
Weiakopf, Of Stein & Co., hat and cap
dealers OF Chicago, were arrested
IN Huron Saturday for allege ed
perjury in attempting to replevin part
OF A. Polack & Cos stock OF goods to
Indebtedness to their houses. They
sawed examination nnd gave honda for
their appearance.
John Dondgher, of Grand Forks, who
has been working On the water works at
Bismarck, was arrested Saturday on com
plant OF his wife, Mrs. Helen Dondgher,